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He simply got madder and madder, putting the question again and again.
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Some old dyers use Brazil wood to heighten the red of madder.
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The effect of this discovery was to throw madder out of cultivation.
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The traffic officer was Irish too, and bigger than Casey, and madder.
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But I was suddenly furious, madder than I'd ever been at anyone.
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To Quonga I gave a tarboosh (fez), and four yards of turkeyred cloth.
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Hickory bark an bay leaves dyes yellow set wid chamber lye; bamboo dyes turkeyred, set color wid copper.
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He is pleased, as well, with the turkeyred seed for hard winter wheat that he brought back from Fort Madison.
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Zone, element of festivity in arches crossing street at short intervals, ribbons of turkeyred suspended from each lamp give warmth and action.
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Peg was dressed in her usual short drugget skirt, rather worn and frayed around the bottom, and a waist of brilliant turkeyred calico.
Usage of madder root in English
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Purple colours are also manufactured by dyeing chalk with madderroot and with hysginum.
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Alizarin was known to the ancients, and until 1868 was obtained entirely from madderroot.
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Alizarine, which has been extensively discussed in various articles in our journal, is the coloring matter contained in the madderroot.
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One of the most notable of these is the substance known as alizarine, the coloring matter extracted from the madderroot.
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In 1870 the German chemists, Graebe and Liebermann, announced that they had succeeded in producing artificial alizarin,-thecoloring matter of the madderroot.
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Purpurin (1.2.4 trioxyanthraquinone) is found with alizarin in madderroot; it is now prepared synthetically by oxidizing alizarin with manganese dioxide and sulphuric acid.